Malaysia’s chief on Monday introduced plans to construct an enormous semiconductor design park, aiming to spice up the Southeast Asian nation’s function within the international chip trade.
A distinguished participant within the semiconductor trade for many years, Malaysia accounts an estimated 13% of world back-end manufacturing, in accordance with German tech big Bosch.
Now it needs to transcend manufacturing and emerge as a chip design powerhouse too, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stated Monday.
“I’m happy to announce the most important IC (built-in circuit) Design Park in Southeast Asia, that can home world-class anchor tenants and collaborate with international corporations comparable to Arm,” Anwar stated in a speech, referring to the British chip design big.
The park can be positioned in Selangor state, he stated, with out providing any particulars on prices and timelines.
AFP has reached out to Arm for remark.
The mission would mark a big step for Malaysia, which has lengthy been a chip manufacturing hub, with its northern island of Penang dwelling to numerous services and is usually dubbed the nation’s Silicon Valley.
Tensions between Washington and Beijing over superior tech, particularly semiconductors, lately have pressured many corporations to look into relocating their manufacturing from China to different nations together with Malaysia, Vietnam and India.
The Malaysian authorities is actively pursuing funding in its semiconductor trade, and Anwar has stated the nation ought to have accomplished higher with previous alternatives to develop the sector.
“The actual fact is that we have now skilled missed alternatives in expertise investments, making it crucial for us to re-strategise,” he stated Monday.
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